Programs

Please join us for a screening of VITAL RESPONSE (2020) by Joseph Liatela followed by a conversation between the artist and Jeanne Vaccaro.

Join Tina Takemoto, Nancy Ukai, Karen Ishizuka, traci kato-kiriyama, and Umi Hsu for the panel discussion titled, “Mobilized by Memories: Countering Incarceration Culture from WWII Japanese American Incarceration to ICE.”

Celebrate two new releases in queer archival studies. Authors Cait McKinney and Jen Jack Gieseking will be in conversation with Karen Tongson about their books Information Activism and A Queer New York.

Brontez Purnell presents Graduation, a live action bedroom performance with text, moving portrait, and live feed installation art.

This panel puts together artists, activists, and organizers to discuss their own practice and experiences around questions of documentation and representation in the face of immigration to the US, particularly as they relate to LGBTQ+ individuals.

Writers Kazim Ali, Stephen Van Dyck, Angie Sijun Lou, and Alejandro Heredia will present work that speaks to the state of queer literature today.

Please join for the fourth in a series of conversations with contemporary artists as part of the ongoing online exhibition, Safer at Home. For this conversation, curator Alexis Bard Johnson will speak with artist Rakeem Cunningham about his ongoing projects and reflections on the current moment.

Please join for the second in a series of conversations with contemporary artists as part of the ongoing online exhibition, Safer at Home. For this conversation, curator Alexis Bard Johnson will speak with artist MariNaomi about her daily comic drawings, overall practice, and thoughts on “safer at home.”

Please join for the third in a series of conversations with contemporary artists as part of the ongoing online exhibition, Safer at Home. For this conversation, curator Alexis Bard Johnson will speak with artist Brenda Zhang (Bz) about their ongoing painting projects.